FINTECH CI/CD STANDARDIZATION

Establishing strict security and compliance pipelines using GitHub Actions and Terraform.

Lighthouse Score

Uptime

99.99%

Avg Latency

N/A

Status

LIVE

PROJECT OVERVIEW

Establishing strict security and compliance pipelines using GitHub Actions and Terraform.

This project showcases our expertise in devops, delivering a robust solution that exceeds industry standards for performance, reliability, and maintainability.

THE CHALLENGE

PROBLEM

A fintech's 12 engineering teams each maintained their own bespoke CI scripts — deployments were inconsistent, security scanning was optional, and audit evidence was non-existent.

OUTCOME

Introduced a mandatory shared GitHub Actions pipeline library with built-in SAST, secrets scanning, and immutable audit logs — achieving SOC 2 Type II readiness in 4 months.

ARCHITECTURE & CODE

pipeline.yml

YAML

1# Mandatory shared pipeline — enforced via branch protection rules
2name: Fintech Compliance Pipeline
3
4on: [push, pull_request]
5
6jobs:
7  security-gate:
8    uses: org/shared-pipelines/.github/workflows/security.yml@v3
9    secrets: inherit
10    # This job MUST pass before any deploy can proceed
11    # Checks: Gitleaks · Snyk · SonarQube Quality Gate
12
13  build-and-sign:
14    needs: security-gate
15    uses: org/shared-pipelines/.github/workflows/build.yml@v3
16    with:
17      sign-image: true       # Sigstore cosign
18      generate-sbom: true    # CycloneDX SBOM to S3
19
20  deploy:
21    needs: build-and-sign
22    if: github.ref == 'refs/heads/main'
23    uses: org/shared-pipelines/.github/workflows/deploy.yml@v3
24    with:
25      environment: production
26      audit-log: true        # Immutable deployment record

DEPLOYMENT PIPELINE

ci/cd — deploy log

8 PASSED

BUILD COMPLETE

01▸ Triggering shared pipeline library (v3.2.0)...

02✓ Secrets scan (Gitleaks) — 0 exposed credentials

03✓ Dependency audit (npm audit, Snyk) — 0 critical CVEs

04✓ SAST scan (SonarQube) — Quality Gate PASSED

05✓ Unit tests — 100% pass rate, coverage 87%

06▸ Building and signing Docker image...

07✓ Image signed with Sigstore cosign

08✓ SBOM generated (CycloneDX format) — archived to S3

09▸ Deploying via Terraform Cloud (plan + apply)...

10✓ Terraform apply complete — 0 resources destroyed

11✓ Deployment event written to immutable audit ledger

PERFORMANCE AUDIT

lighthouse — performance report

LIGHTHOUSE PERFORMANCE

ACCEPTABLE — OPTIMISE BEFORE PROD

CORE WEB VITALS

LCP — Largest Contentful PaintTime until the largest element is rendered

2.2sGOOD

FID — First Input DelayResponsiveness to first user interaction

24msGOOD

CLS — Cumulative Layout ShiftVisual stability during page load

0.04GOOD

TTFB — Time to First ByteServer response time to first byte

200msGOOD

TECHNOLOGY STACK

GitHub ActionsTerraformDockerSonarQube

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